Volume 25, Issue 10
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Trump to Lay off 65% of EPA’s Workforce
By Cole Harrison, Patriot Journal March 2025 Washington insiders are clutching their pearls again. Another day, another melt- down over President Trump’s promise to trim the fat from our bloated federal gov- ernment. The administrative state has grown for decades, choking out efficiency and drain- ing taxpayer dollars faster than a leaky faucet. Remember when government agencies actually served the American people? Now they seem more interested in serving themselves. Endless meetings about meetings. Com- mittees to study the findings of other com- mittees. All while hardworking Americans foot the bill through ever-increasing taxes. President Donald Trump signaled Feb- ruary 26 that the Environmental Pro- tection Agency is about to get a serious haircut. During his first cabinet meeting of his second term, Trump re- vealed that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin plans to slash a whopping 65% from the agency. From ‘Daily Caller’: “I spoke with Lee Zeldin, and he thinks he’s going to be cutting 65 or so percent of the people from environ- mental, and we’re going to speed up the process too at the same time,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. “He had a lot of people that weren’t doing their job, they were just obstruc- tionists, and a lot of people that didn’t exist.” The White House later clarified that the 65% figure refers to overall spend- ing cuts at the EPA, which will include staff reductions. But make no mistake – this is exactly the kind of swamp-draining that Trump promised on the campaign trail. The EPA has ballooned to over 15,000 employees in the 2024 fiscal
year. That’s a small city of bureaucrats. And apparently, that wasn’t enough! The agency had the audacity to request budget increases to add another 2,023 employ- ees. More paper-pushers. More red tape. More roadblocks for American businesses trying to create jobs. All while claiming they don’t have enough resources to fulfill their basic mission. This is the administrative state in a nut- shell. Create problems, then demand more money to fix the problems they created. Lather, rinse, repeat. Zeldin has been busy since taking the helm at EPA. He’s already uncovered some truly shocking mismanagement of taxpayer funds. According to reports, Zeldin recently “highlighted the most ap- palling mismanagement of taxpayer funds
at the EPA, noting that billions were al- legedly sent to left-wing nonprofits, even some linked to Democratic voter mobiliza- tion efforts under the previous presidential administration.” Big surprise. Your tax dollars weren’t just funding ex- cessive regulations. They were potentially being funneled to partisan political activ- ities disguised as “environmental” initia- tives. The Department of Government Effi- ciency has already identified $65 billion in wasteful and fraudulent spending gov- ernment-wide. And they’re just getting started. Environmental activists are having con- niption fits over the proposed cuts. But here’s what they’re not telling you: Trim- ming bureaucratic fat doesn’t mean abandoning environmental protection. It
means focusing on core functions rather than political activism. “President Trump and EPA Administrator Zeldin are in lock step in creating a more efficient and effective federal government,” the EPA said in a statement that added the agency will cut “wasteful grants” and look
at “organizational improvements to the per- sonnel structure.” Zeldin himself has stated, “We must en- sure we are protecting the environment while also protecting our economy.” That’s common sense – something Washington has been sorely lacking.
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